About the day » Monday August 3, 1896Calender converter

• Andriesje Pals, Emmer Compascuum († 1897)
• Anna Maria Sicardi, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1896)
• Adriana Maria Landsbergen, Schiedam († 1941)
• Angeline Jackson Krech, Sea Bright, Monmouth, New Jersey, United States
• Alice Irene Sproule
• Albert Jozef Maria Cornelius de Nayer, Temse
• Anna Catharina Geertrui Woerlee, Zaltbommel († 1978)
• Albertus Johannes van Vuuren, didam
• Anna Maria Sevriens, Venlo, Netherlands († 1914)
• Anna Catharina Geertruij Woerlee, Zaltbommel († 1978)

• Aart Johannes de Vos (53), Geervliet
• Bernardus Jacob Veele (0), Den Haag
• Catharina Maria Grauwmans (0), Rotterdam
• allegonda van dieten (31), oijen en teeffelen
• Aart Johannes de Vos (53), Geervliet
• Aaldrik Wierenga (53), Ten Boer
• Afien Geerdsema (61), Doesburg, Gelderland, Nederland
• Antonetta Maria Paulina Bongers (48), Amsterdam (Noord-Holland NL)
• Antje Heeringa (38), Doniawerstal
• Catharina Maria Graumans (0), Rotterdam

• 1890 » Konstantin Melnikov, Russian architect, designed the Rusakov Workers' Club († 1974)
• 1894 » Harry Heilmann, American baseball player and sportscaster († 1951)
• 1895 » Allen Bathurst, Lord Apsley, English politician († 1942)
• 1896 » Ralph Horween, American football player and coach († 1997)
• 1899 » Louis Chiron, Monegasque race car driver († 1979)
• 1900 » Ernie Pyle, American soldier and journalist († 1945)
• 1900 » John T. Scopes, American educator († 1970)
• 1901 » John C. Stennis, American lawyer and politician († 1995)
• 1901 » Stefan Wyszyński, Polish cardinal († 1981)
• 1902 » Regina Jonas, German rabbi († 1944)

• 1867 » Philipp August Böckh, German historian and scholar (b. 1785)
• 1877 » William B. Ogden, American businessman and politician, 1st Mayor of Chicago (b. 1805)
• 1879 » Joseph Severn, English painter (b. 1793)
• 1894 » George Inness, American painter (b. 1825)
• 1913 » William Lyne, Australian politician, 13th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1844)
• 1916 » Roger Casement, Irish poet and activist (b. 1864)
• 1917 » Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, German mathematician and academic (b. 1849)
• 1920 » Peeter Süda, Estonian organist and composer (b. 1883)
• 1922 » Ture Malmgren, Swedish journalist and politician (b. 1851)
• 1924 » Joseph Conrad, Polish-born British novelist (b. 1857)

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from May 9, 1894 to July 27, 1897 the cabinet Roëll, with Jonkheer mr. J. Roëll (oud-liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
• January 18 » An X-ray generating machine is exhibited for the first time by H. L. Smith.
• February 21 » An Englishman raised in Australia, Bob Fitzsimmons, fought an Irishman, Peter Maher, in an American promoted event which technically took place in Mexico, winning the 1896 World Heavyweight Championship in boxing.
• June 28 » An explosion in the Newton Coal Company's Twin Shaft Mine in Pittston, Pennsylvania results in a massive cave-in that kills 58 miners.
• July 9 » William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of Gold speech advocating bimetallism at the 1896 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
• August 17 » Bridget Driscoll became the first recorded case of a pedestrian killed in a collision with a motor car in the United Kingdom.
• December 30 » Filipino patriot and reform advocate José Rizal is executed by a Spanish firing squad in Manila.

The temperature on August 3, 1896 was about 17.3 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 80%.